'I was struck with multiple blows': inside the secret violence of Homan Square

The Guardian (website news) has obtained some documents about the famous Chicago Police "warehouse" known as Homan Square.

Police (allegedly) bring prisoners (arrestees) there and don't tell anybody, resulting in secrecy and no lawyers, and possible physical interrogation methods.

The Chicago Police Department is currently under federal investigation(s) for alleged brutality.

The Homan Square building is "officially" headquarters for the organized-crime bureau.

The article is long and has lots of details.


'I was struck with multiple blows': inside the secret violence of Homan Square

Documents disclosed in Guardian lawsuit reveal for first time how Chicago police used punches, baton blows and Tasers at the off-the-books interrogation site

Internal documents from the Chicago police department show that officers used physical force on at least 14 men already in custody at the warehouse known as Homan Square.

Police used punches, knee strikes, elbow strikes, slaps, wrist twists, baton blows and Tasers at Homan Square, according to documents released to the Guardian in the course of its transparency lawsuit about the warehouse. The new information contradicts an official denial about treatment of prisoners at the facility.

The injured men are among at least 7,351 people – more than 6,000 of them black – who, police documents show, have been detained and interrogated at Homan Square without a public notice of their whereabouts or access to an attorney.

Big Government, Big Police

a reply to: xuenchen

Kind of like Chicago's own little Gitmo. Maybe Rahm Con can take a queue from Dear Leader and close it down.

And this election season is a battle between people who want government to be this big at the federal level. After everything we've seen with the CIA water boarding, Abu Graib prison, Americans being killed in drone strikes, and other crimes against the constitution, and now individual police departments operating their own black sites... I just don't get the people who want to make government, at any level, larger and more powerful.


It's going to be an interesting decade or two as we watch this nation become the gangster government paradise similar to Russia after the end of the Cold War.

Chigcago organizers love their organized organizations.

Was the Organized crime bureau organized by community organizers like Obama?

a reply to: projectvxn

Damn straight, brother.

Government needs to be kept on a tight leash. When we snap it, they come to heel. And when they don't, they cower in the corner.



OP, great expose opportunity here. Im gonna have to spend time digesting the whole thing. Im familiar with the story....but now that there are details I think its time to dig in.

Thanks for sharing.

a reply to: xuenchen

Big military, big government.

originally posted by: MystikMushroom
a reply to: xuenchen

Big military, big government.

And yet ... you are one of the biggest proponents of

Big Government on here. Day after day, you advocate for more of it with more control over all of us at every level.

Why hasn't your head exploded yet? extra DIV